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K YA U FA N 2011-2014 Selected Works AquaMate Little Journey Audio Guide & Twist Headphone Mini Nurse Reveilly Spinning Tape Dispenser

Ya Fan, Ku SEP. 2010 - JUNE. 2014 National Cheng Kung University Department of Industrial Design +886 958 989041 YaFan920623@gmail.com

Skills Solidworks Keyshot Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Premier

Experience 2014 / Tokyo Designers’ week 2013 / Workshop with RCA Mind The Gap 2013 / Internship Xue Xue Foundation 2012 / Workshop in France One tool One object

Contents AquaMate

Little Journey

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

Sep 2013- May 2014

Mar 2013- Jun 2013

Oct 2012- Jan 2013

Mini Nurse

Reveilly

Spinning Tape Dispenser

Apr 2012- Jun 2012

Feb 2013- Apr 2012

Sep 2011- Nov 2011

01 AquaMate SEP. 2013 - MAY. 2014 Wen Yu, Yang Yun Tze, Hsieh Ya Fan, Ku The earth is the biggest treasure to us. But nowadays, we’re facing a problem of lacking resources.

What can we do?

AquaMate is a project about being eco-friendly. We hope to help the environment with everyone’s effort. And AquaMate provides an easier way for families to do good to Mother Nature.

Orientation

It’s our first time to decide what theme is going to be our project.

What do we concern about ? And how do we make effort on it as designers? Members in my team had the same idea. We all wanted to design a product which has real function and can help to solve some issues.

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Recycling / Urban Mining ?

At first, we discussed issues about recycling. From a person’s behavior to a fmily, then, a whole society. We went to recycling station for observations and interview. Later, we broadened the range of recycling. We were interested in Urban Mining. It refers to a larger scope of recycling. It not only deals with papers, bottles but all kinds of things that can be recycled.

Orientation There’re a lot of junked resource in cities. And the cities are as if mines. What can we mine from those junk ? We aimed at household grease from kitchen waste.

Orientation

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Prototype

AquaMate

Orientation Stakeholders Household grease seems to be a tiny thing that we rarely pay attention on it. But after we drain it away, those grease can cause problems not only to our pipes but also to environment.

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In sewers, grease lumps after contacting with water for 4 months.

In countries where have low penetration rate of sewers, grease goes into Mother Nature.

Spend millions of dollars on dealing with it.

Promote penetration rate of sewers.

Governm

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Drain grease into pipes and sewers.

Grease lumps pipes which are in the kitchen.

Buy Drano or hire worker to fix it.

Householders Householders

Grease floats on the surface of ocean and isulates water from oxygen.

Water with low solved oxygen is unliveable for creatures

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Household Grease

Catch of fishes is on the decrease.

Lower income.

Orientation

Target User General families, not tenants suites Cooking at home. Sometimes, they have takeaway foods at home There’s kitchen also under sink cabinet in house Have eco-awareness

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Eco-awareness /

Bring their own shopping bags Bring eco-tableware when go out for dinning Do recycling Avoide using chemicals

Experiment

At biginning, we’re Inspired by the oil spill incident in Mexico.

We searched kinds of animals’ hair and tested how much oil it can suck up.

Through experiments, we found out that feathers of chickens are the most outstanding ones. It’s because there’s no oil on chicken’s feathers and the composition of the feathers makes them take in more amount of oil.

Because chicken’s feathers have no oil, they can easily take much oil. While it’s the same reason that makes chicken’s feathers no economic value. They can’t keep things warm. We thought that by using them to deal with the grease problem, we can promote the value of the feathers. However, it costs tremendous amount of water to clean the feathers. It’s still not a eco-friendly approach.

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Experiments on different hair

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Take out & drop redundant oil

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Soak hair in oil

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Ideas

After a series of discussion and experiments, we realized a physical way to hold grease. Thus, we focus on designing a product rather than material inovation.

We put emphasise on how to let it fit into houses as well as how to let users have better experience.

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Prototype

Prototypes helped us figure out how our ideas work. By series of try and error, we fixed problems.

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

AquaMate Introduction AquaMate is a grease trap designed for household users.

There are six components in AquaMate. A lid, sieve, oil cup, tank and the main body. Special design of the oil cup lets users can take grease out without trouble. With AquaMate, every families can simply do their parts to the nature while enjoying meals at home.

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Water Intake / Connected to pipe

Lid / Press to open and close

Sieve / Intercepts food scraps

Oil Cup / Collects grease

Red Ring / Goes between gearse and water Indicates the amount of grease

AquaMate Product Characteristic

Working Principle There’re two tanks in AquaMate and the two tanks are connected via the passage. Because grease’s rather low density, it will float on water. With this property, water

goes to the 2nd tank and drains away whereas grease is trapped in the 1st tank, on the top where the oil cup is.

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Water Grease

High-water Line

We thicken the bottom part and enhance the height of sieve to keep food scraps from soaking in water and decaying fast

Orientation

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Mark the diversity of densities can indicates the capacity of gathered grease without power consumption.

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

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The oil cup makes users take out grease and empty it skillfully.It also avoids users from squatting down to fish for grease in the narrow place under sink.

A series of mechanisms let users run the whole system while simply rotating the oil cup. It makes sealed plug open then form a gap so water can be discharged.

AquaMate Using Process

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Push the lid to limit, it will bounce up and open.

Take out the sieve respectively and clean it regularly.

When the ring shows in the window or the timer is twinkling, clean the oil cup.

Rotate the oil cup. Whole tanks of water drain away in the meantime.

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

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Prototype

AquaMate

Simply take out grease with the oil cup.

Pour the grease along the curve of the oil cup into leftover bucket.

Thoroughly clean the oil cup as well as the seive.

Complete cleaning process by installing the seive and oil cup back after washing.

AquaMate Compared with existing product

AquaMate is smaller that designed to fit general families. And it prevent users from bending down to scoop up grease.

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Smaller ( 0.24 * 0.28 * 0.3 M 3 )

Larger ( 3 * 1 * 1 M 3 )

User

General Families

Large Enterprises

Clean-up Method

Take out the oil cup

Scoop up when numerous grease was accumulated

Way to h handle grease

Recycle; Make into feed for stock raising

Deal with lime; pollute environment

Orientation

Experiment

Ideas

Prototype

AquaMate

Business Model Discount on sewerage prices → 50% off for 2 years and purchasing AquaMate → 10% off (440 EUR 396!)

Buy

Households

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AquaMate

Government

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Promote

Save moneys of repairing pipes ;

Save a great amount of moneys used to

save moneys of buying Drano.

clean sewers ; save cost on running sewerage

A great amount of moneys can be saved by families effort. AquaMate provides the opportunity to reduce the cost on cleaning sewers for governments. Thus, governments can offer some discount on purchasing

AquaMate and also on sewerage prices. At the same time, the funds saved from running sewerage and cleaning sewers can be used to promote penetration rate of sewers where it is low. Promoting the

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penetration rate of sewers is the way which exactly improves the environmental issue.

We hope that every one can do their effort to protect Mother Nature no matter citizens or governments.

02 Little Journey MAR. 2013 - JUNE. 2013 Shan Yu, Wang Ya Fan, Ku What is transaction? What can a vending machine do more?

Started from concept of transaction then broaden the range of transaction. A vending machine can do more instead of just selling products or offfering service. Little Journey is a project about caring and fund raising.

Orientation Explore ideas from magzines

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Before we jumped into the theme of vending machine, we did brandstorming. By simply cut down pages that we were interested in from magzines, it helped us think outside the box. There’re two points which drew our attention.

In summer, a man reads ratiocination.

Plants, the elderly, Social vulnerable groups

A feeling of “Incomplete“ , “Endless“

Social Issues

This kind feeling of incomplete and endless recalls us a story. Chen Sheng, a singer, hold a concert in 1999, but he decided to sell tickets in 1998. The tickets was sold at a low price with one condition. It demamded couples to come back the concert together after an year. At that time, tickets was sold out immediately whereas only half of couples came back the concert.

Then, we started to think about can a transaction last longer?

Homeless, the elderly, Social vulnerable groups, environment issues ...

There’re a lot of social issues around the world. How can a vendind machine do to help? With a low using barrier provided by vending machines, almost everyone is able to use vending machines. Can transaction be much easier to those people in need? Or the power of transaction would be stronger to help people?

Orientation Brief After discussions, we kept the idea of endless in mind and put emphasis more on human than general social issues.

Help Lives / “Would you please have a good life in my stead?” said a little girl who had fought against cancer for years.

Cancer is one of the top ten reasons of dying. There’re people who want to live longer, yet they can’t afford medical expenses. We hoped to turn a vending machine into an approach of fund raising.

Remind Cherising / Every person, Every day, has something brilliant to be cherished.

Inspired by those brave poeple who fought against cancer and stayed positive, we would like to remind everyone to cherish their own lives. And the believe of beautiful life even though sometimes, life can be tough.

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Ideas We came up with many different games. Some games had elements to imply that life is fragile, and some put more emphasis on alternatives. All ideas were built according to our brief. Every person, every day has something brilliant to be cherished. And we hoped to impress people by experience it in this vending machine.

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No matter how our lives look like, we all have to go through the same stage. We born, and we die. The only different is that some live longer time and some won’t.

It’s a symbol of life. There’s an end and it starts at the same position, but what is going to happen on the journey is unknown.

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Labyrinth symbolizes life. On the journey of life, we always have to make a choice. Unveliled part of the labyrinth means that future is unpredictable.

The game was designed to play with the marble with pigment on it. When people make a choice, it leaves beautiful trace.

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Liver Stomach

Life sometimes likes gambling. What we pay is not equivalent to what we gain. In the game, we bet dollars to win a bigger prize and won’t know what’s at the end unless arrive at it. While in reality, cancer patients bet all things on their life. They give up part of organ for years or even few days to live.

Orientation

However, by those games, it’s hard to realize that they refer to life.

Therefore, after interviews with hospitals and discussions, we decided to tell a story of a patient

Ideas

and his families.

We kept the idea of options in life and combine it with the story. Life is about a series of choices. We’re going to make the story into a

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

drama. The story lines are going to be different according to everyone’s choice. And we chose spirograph to represent beautidul lives.

Experiment

We did experiments on Holographic Projection that we wanted to apply to our drama. And we tried the electric circuit board. Also, we tried to learn programmimg with Arduino to control everything in the little stage.

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Modeling

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Little Journey Introduction Little Journey is a vending machine which sells spirograph with a life story. And the income from little Journey is donated to cancer foundation. With a low using barrier provided by a vending machine, it gets more chance to raise funds for cancer patients who needs help.

Little Journey Characteristic Little Journey presents a story adapted from a true story.

And the story lines will be different according to users’ decisions. By acting as the characters in the story, users go thourgh a little journey of life.

The two characters represent a patient and family of him.

As a patient, what do you do for your family?

As a family, do you have the right to do what you want to do?

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Beautiful

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Choice

A life journey of a patient

You need to make decisions

And live a beautiful life

A whole life is like a story. Every person is the master of their own life sotry.

It’s inevitable in life that we have to make decisions, although sometimes it’s difficult for us.

Even we can’t figure out what the future will be, we still have to hand our choices in.

No matter what people have chosen and how the outcome was, it’s definitely a beautiful life. Each time, when people make decision, it drops down part of spirograph. The spirograph and the patterns will be differnt dut to different choices.

And it represent pretty life.

Little Journey tells a story of a cancer patient. By acting as the character in the story, people can go through diferent stages of life. Let’s share those happiness and sorrow in life together.

In the story, people must choose to let the story make progress.

Life

Little Journey Story Lines & Meanings

Yes, I wanna go. → It’s a chance to earn more

Yi Ching, Liou 38 years old Married, has wife and a daughter

money for my family, so they’can live a better life.

The company wants me to transfer to America.

The family’s main resource of finance

No, I’m not going.

A cancer patient

→ Money is not the only thing of my life. I wanna have more time to be with my lovely family.

Yes, I can understand. → I love dad. And I’m going to

Ya Ping, Liou 8 years old A primary school student A cancer patient’s family

support him like he always does.

There’s a singing compitition.

Dad has always be my support, but he’s going abroad.

No, I don’t want. → I want dad to be with me all the time.

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

Yes, I will. → Don’t want my family to worry about me. What I can

Feeling kind of ill. After the health check, I’m diagnosed as cancer.

Should I continue woring abraod ?

do is to make sure they’ll be fine without me.

No, I will not. → I want to be with my family. I need them. I need support.

Yes, I will.

I’m diagnosed with cancer.

The chemotherapy costs a great amount of money.

→ I want to fight. I want to recover therefore I can be

Should I continue the therapy ?

with my family.

No, I will not. → I’m tired already. It’s not gonna work.

Yes, I’m going.

I won the compitition. But dad’s very ill in the hospital.

Should I still go to the awards ceremony?

→ I want to get the prize and I’m going to root for him with it.

No, I’m not going. → I want to be with dad. He needs my help.

Yes, I will.

Dad is back but mom said that he’s very ill in hospital.

Should I still go to the compitition?

→ I have practiced hard for it.

No, I will not. → It’s okay. I’ll go next time. To be with dad is more important.

Little Journey Holographic Projection Combining 2D and 3D, we used kind of holography to present the story. We made a 3D stage and project the charactersin to it to promote layer effect.

Orientation

Ideas

Experiment

Modeling

Little Journey

03 Audio Guide & Twist Headphone OCT. 2012 - JAN. 2013 When we go to exhibitions, we use audio guide to learn information better.

And sometimes, we go by ourselves while sometimes with others. Are we going to take turn? Or to go together?

This time, we tried to figure out solutions for product that may be used by more than one person.

Orientation Onsite Visit

Orientation

Persona

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

We went to museums and exhibitions for observation. We noticed that people have different behaviors of using audio guide.

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Audio Guide

Audio Guide

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Two people use one audio guide together

A group of people, but one with an audio guide

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Go their seperated way

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Go their seperated way but give the audio guide to partner once a short time

Orientation

According to the obervations, we listed down problems people had.

By design method, we picked up some problems and a group of people to see different situations then look for solutions.

Orientation

We noticed that people concern where their friends are once in a while if they go seperately. But it’s hard to check it if the place is crowded or if people are not just nearby.

Also, it’s hard not to happen that people talk loud when wearing a headphone since they can’t hear.

As for individual behavior, we found out that people rarely wear headphone all the time when visiting exhibitions. They tend to take a rest whenever there’s no introduction. And the elderly have problems with operating audio guide.

Don’t know where the friends are.

Are they still in this area? Are they finish?

Feel uncomfortable with wearing headphone for a long time. People remove headphone when it’s not in use

Persona

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

People talk at a very loud volume because when wearing headphone, they can’t hear well and don’t know how loud they are.

The young generation is good at operating audio guide while the elderly are not.

Persona

A man and his teenage daughter. They used to be close when the girl was small.

However, the father was transfered to China by company. They became kind of alienated. Now, the father has came back and he wants to spend time with his daughter on weekends.

Orientation

Persona

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

Ming Kun, Hung

Wei Ru, Hung

54 years old Working in a motor company

15 years old Freshman in Senior high school

Not specially like Art exhibition but he goes to exhitions if the themes are interested.

She loves arts very much and usually goes to museums for exhibitions.

Most important is that his daughter like it so it worth costing time with daughter to visit museums or exhibitions.

Learning how to interact with her father after being alienated for years.

slight presbyopia

Familiar with touchscreen product

In exhibition sites, he wants to know where his daughter is just for being relieved.

She feels a bit embarrased to walk along with father through out exhibitions. It makes her feel that she’s still a little girl.

He’ll not call the daughter come to see when seeing something interesting, but if the daughter is just nearby, he says to her for sharing.

She shares her thought about exhibition with her father after finish it.

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

Screen

Play, Pause, Stop Same as general players. Users don’t need to learn again.

__ 請輸入號碼

Traditional Buttons

Shows guides to use the audio guide.

Shows the number you type and which one is playing.

Middle-aged users friendly

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Shows timeline of songs.

Voice Volume + Volume up _ Volume down

Audio Guide Interface Frequently used part

Headphone Jack Plug in headphone here

Map Interface Folded when not in used

Orientation

Persona

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

Slide up the lid to show the map part. By adding friends’ location, people can easily know where the friends are.

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Shake to add friends

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This represent yourself

◎ This represent your friend

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Audio Guide & Twist Headphone We saw people tend to move headphone a little bit back rather than remove it. Inspired by their behavior in observations, the design of twist headphone make it more stable when people want to take rest.

Orientation

Persona

Audio Guide & Twist Headphone

04 Mini Nurse APR. 2012 - JUNE. 2012 Is it possible to combine tools to make progress of first aid faster?

Is there any chance to enhance the usage then users can have better experince ?

Mini Nurse is a project about redesign of medical utensil for first aid.

Modeling

Modeling

Mini Nurse

Mini Nurse

Notion One of the first aid process is to disinfect the wound before you bandage it. However, commercial available iodine solutions are hard to aim at the bottle’s mouth. You need to press the bottle to let Iodine solution drip on the cotton bud but it always drip down on the table or floor.

I came up with an idea to change to change the the flow of iodine solution. By turnning it into the opposite way, iodine solution comes from the bottom to the top. People can dip it instead of aimming at the small mouth.

Modeling

Using Process Push the body of Mini Nurse down, iodine solution comes up the the platform. Simply dip the iodine solution with cotton bud and apply to wound.

Mini Nurse

05 Reveilly FEB 2012 - Apr. 2012 You Rong, Chang Jia Shan, Yu Ya Fan, Ku Reveilly is an alarm which try to wake people up by touching instead of sounds. We’re thinking about a situation like students living in dorm or share room with others. How to wake a person up but not to disturb the other ones.

It’s a project that we try to explore possibility of lego robot. By its elements and programming, this’s our first product that has actions.

Orientation

At the biginning, we played with lego to see what it can be. We built cars with different structures then it had different functions.

However, we found out that the motors are quite weak. It couldn’t even lift up a 300 ml bottle with water inside. Also, though it has color sensers, they are not as sensitive as we thought. Thus, when we developed ideas, there’re a few conditions.

Orientation

Modeling

Reveilly

We had some ideas about cleaning robot or about smart house robot. But later, we all had interested in an idea about alarm without sounds as we’re all living in student dorm at that time.

Most of time, we had very different schedule from roommates.

And in the morning, alarms were always annoying.

Modeling

Orientation

Modeling

Reveilly

Reveilly

Reveilly has it’s own track. It moves along the bed and wake people up by touching.

When it’s time to wake up, Reveilly starts walking forward until it touchs the bedplate on the other side. Then, it moves backward again. If user catches Reveilly’s hand, it raises the frequency of moving back and forth until user wakes up and turns it off.

Orientation

Modeling

Reveilly

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Turn on the switch on the back of Reveilly.

Set the time you want to wake up at before going to bed.

Reveilley keeps waiting by users’ feet until the time users set to wake them up.

It starts to move along the bed until crashes the bedplate. After changing direction, Reveilly keeps working until users wake up.

Press the botton on the back of Reveilly to turn the alarm off.

06 Spinning Tape Disenser SEP. 2011 - NOV. 2011 Tape dispenser is one kind of products that its form is its function. Usually, it has an axis for a tape and has a body for the axis.

Spinning Tape Dispenser changed the way of using tape dispensers.

By the new way to put a tape in, it gave a possibility to the form of a tape dispenser.

Orientation

There could be few different directions for developing ideas of a tape dispenser. We could think about how to build a tape dispenser at lowest cost. Or we could improve it for special users like children or nurse.

At the beginning, I didn’t set a direction. I just skeched ideas that I came up with. But later, I was interested in a new way of using a tape dispenser. I wonder is there a new way for changing tapes.

Orientation

Modeling

Spinning Tape Dispenser

Modeling

Orientation

Modeling

Spinning Tape Dispenser

Spinning Tape Dispenser

Spinning Tape Dispenser is a tape dispenser without a specific cylinder working as an axis. The function of holding a tape is also part of the form. It’s a new possibility of how a tape dispenser look like. It’s also a new way to change a tape.

Orientation

Using Process Put a tape in from the top. And then, rotate the tape until it fits into the gap.

Modeling

Spinning Tape Dispenser

YA FAN, KU

+886 958989041 YaFan920623@gmail.com